I have had one of the Yellow River captains tell me of the flood of August, 1921, and their struggle to prevent the disaster. How after a number of days of rain with the dykes saturated and the river within one foot of the top and the raging current starting to scour away part of the dyke, and uprooting trees planted along the foot of the dykes the current started to swirl and scour badly at the weakest part of the dyke. How they had been working night and day in the rain, building pack work to protect the threatened section and how the river_up to this time had been flowing in two converge ing channels and finally swung and started to swirl and dig in front of the weakest section. This swirling finally undermined the dykes and ie raging soon made a breach over one mile wide through which it poured,
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